Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Andrei Vishinsky, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, considered the woman question. A Canadian official reported that when Vishinsky refused to allow him to take his Russian wife home to Canada (a decision later reversed by Stalin), he said: "The duty of Russian women is to produce Soviet children. . . . Most women who marry foreigners are of the wrong type. . . . Women talk too much, and thus they give the wrong impression of the Soviet Union...
Last week Millard Wright's brain operation presented the court with a difficult legal question: Is a criminal tendency a disease that surgery can cure? Brought to trial for his burglaries before Judge G. Malcolm McDonald, Wright looked like a new man. He was cheerful, sociable and relaxed. Dr. Koskoff thought there was a good chance that he had been cured of the urge to steal. But to complete the cure, the prisoner would have to be set free and given a chance to live in a "normal" environment...
Under Dr. Poling the Herald changed from a weekly to a monthly, grew five times fatter, acquired its present booming circulation. He still writes all the editorials and book reviews, and conducts a question-&-answer page. His copy is mailed in from wherever he happens to be at deadline time. He also writes a daily piece for the New York Post...
They still expected that the readjustment would speed up in the fall, after seasonal workers lost their jobs. And U.S. exports, which had taken up the slack in the economy so far, were still a big question. Unless bolstered by a U.S. program of foreign aid, such as the Marshall Plan, they were almost certain to collapse by year's end. But Wall Street felt that the aid would come, no matter how pinchpenny Congress now seemed. All this caused the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Sanhedrin of financial theologians, to say in its July report: "While...
Jukebox Genius. At a Manhattan coin-machine show, exhibitors proudly demonstrated a mechanical "Information Please," patterned after a Navy wartime training device. For a nickel, the machine propounds five questions on a printed screen from a selection of 8,000, gives the player a choice of answers to each question. The player selects one by punching a button and is graded by the machine...